50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs
50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs
Anne W. Brigman
'The Dying Cedar'
Lot Closed
April 21, 02:22 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Anne W. Brigman
1869 - 1950
'The Dying Cedar'
gelatin silver print, tipped to a triple mount, signed in ink on the image, signed in pencil on the primary mount, signed, titled, numbered 'No -2.,' and annotated with the photographer's '683 -Brockhurst St., Oakland - Cal.' studio address in green ink, annotated '$10.00' in pencil, and with a Camera Pictorialists of Los Angeles salon stamp on the reverse of the tertiary mount, 1906
image: 9 ⅝ by 6 ½ in. (24.4 by 16.5 cm.)
overall: 16 ¾ by 13 in. (42.5 by 33 cm.)
By descent to Mrs. Willard Nott
Acquired from the above, 1989
Anne Brigman, Songs of a Pagan (Caldwell, 1949), p. 49
Anne Brigman: Pictorial Photographer/Pagan/Member of the Photo-Secession (The Oakland Museum, 1974), p. 11 (there titled incorrectly The Soul of the Blasted Pine)
Weston J. Naef, The Collection of Alfred Stieglitz: Fifty Pioneers of Modern Photography (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978), p. 282
Alexander Lee Nyerges, In Praise of Nature: Ansel Adams and Photographers of the American West (The Dayton Art Institute, 1999), p. 82
Kathleen Pyne, Modernism and the Feminine Voice: O’Keeffe and the World of the Stieglitz Circle (Berkeley, 2007), pp. 95 and 112
Teresa A. Carbone, ed., Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties (New York: Brooklyn Museum, 2011), p. 213
Ann M. Wolfe, ed., Anne Brigman: A Visionary in Modern Photography (Reno: Nevada Museum of Art, 2018), pp. 5, 97, 258, and 273
Kathleen Pyne, Anne Brigman: The Photographer of Enchantment (New Haven, 2020), pp. 1, 4, 59, and 153